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Episode 325: Big Chicken: How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats

Episode 325: Big Chicken: How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats

FromEat Your Words Presents: Saved by the Bellini


Episode 325: Big Chicken: How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats

FromEat Your Words Presents: Saved by the Bellini

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Length:
37 minutes
Released:
Dec 10, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

On the season finale of Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined by Maryn McKenna, an independent journalist and author who specializes in public health, global health and food policy. She is a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University and the author of the new book Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats (National Geographic Books, Sept. 2017), named a Best Science Book of 2017 by Amazon and Smithsonian Magazine and a Best Food Book by Civil Eats. Her 2015 TED Talk, “What do we do when antibiotics don’t work any more?”, has been viewed more than 1.5 million times and translated into 32 languages.
Released:
Dec 10, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Eat Your Words is the weekly radio dispatch from Cathy Erway, founder of the blog Not Eating Out In New York. Every week, Cathy is joined by authors of books that you just want to eat up -- from colorful cookbooks to food memoirs to exposes on the food industry, it's all meaty topic for discussion. Tune in to learn what's new and happening in the world of food through its literature.